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Chicago examiner vol x no 269 a m wednesday Chicago october 30 1912 wednesday mbtml in pricf onf cfnt delivered by c.rrlw u s patent office rrvn uiil (_.Â£ un i . 30 -â€ž, s p _. hontk war on special privileges in the tariff is wilson's aim will cut them out without hurting business and caus ing panic says governor in repeating his attitude declares those who have monopoly on credit will be responsible if depres sion follows his election irarw tork oct 29.-at three rousing rallies in essex county to-night governor wilson made strong pleas for the election of a democratic state legislature to ln snre the . election of william hughes as united states senator from xew jersey the governor told his andlences that without a democratic congress he as pres ident of the united states will be seriously handicapped in carrying out his proposed reforms reiterating his attitude on the tariff joveruor wilson in his newark speech am i read on very high authority if the i.riu i-rats were put into power there vet ill be i panic in the united states that i>usii:eh8 would be interrupted that every bing would tumble down and this great henr.tiful structure of our prosperity would po l.-s!r.nod and i understand that it is siiid thai governor wilson has not denned his position on the t:\rlff well for fear uher'e nv pers us present who cannot read the english language or who have just moved into the united states and never beard anything about this subject i am olng to define ny position en tho taric o thouphtful democrat in the united states hns so much as proposed free trade to cut out special privileges bot every democrat in the united states who knows anything knows that the schedules of the tariff almost from end to end conceal special privileges and private favors which we are going to ent out without touching or endangering one single wholesome fiber of honest ar rangement or ambitions is that definite enough do you not suppose that dem ocrats live in the united states do you suppose that democrats have come to the conclusion that they bad better pull the house down about their own ears are they so rich that they can now af ford to retire from business aee they going to commit economic suicide do they look like tyros and innocents and beginners now i find that i am invited to re turn to my ancient occupation i used to be a teacher of history and i find it necessary to teach it once more and i am positively abashed to find myself faced with the necessity of teaching it to the president of the united states i believe that whatever mr Taft puts his name to he puts it in perfect honesty and sin cerity but i am astounded to find that he has put his name to certain statements in entire ignorance of the circumstances of which he speaks he attributes the panic of 1s93 to the cleveland administration and intimates either personally or through his spokes men thfit it had something to do with the tariff bill which was passed the fol lowing year that is the most influential tariff bill i ever heard of that upsets business before it is enacted almost a yenr before it was enacted but what really upset business in the year 1s03 as every tyro knows who knows anything about the economic history of america was the absolutely fatal financial policy of currency legislation of the republican administration that had preceded defends giover cleveland afik any business man whose memory goes back to tliose days and will tell you that the risis the panic of isoy was coining uu with giant strides when mr cleveland was sworn into office chiefly ! because of the silver purchasing clause of the sherman act and that it was impossi ble to sustain either the currency or the credit of the country under the financial legislation of republican administrations a cr;isis that conies on throe months after ad administration takes offices and before y(he congress of that administration has i assembled is surely a very premature crisis uuless it has something to do with what has preceded it it is a matter of record that the crisis was the legitimate and inevitable result of policies for which the democratic party was in no degree re sponsible this is history and any fair man who knows tb-i circumstances will ad mit the truth of that statement but they say that if the next admin istration is democratic there will be an other panic well if there is it will have been brought on by the republicans and i i mb to say this that if there should ; be a panic knowing the circumstances of this country as i know them now it will win if red black dubs bartzen attack as clubwomen's fad writer defies society leaders to give real reasons why plain honest peter bartzen should not be re-elected to continue care of the needy by winifred black y o you're after bartzen are you â€” members of o the Chicago woman's club â€” plain old blunt ly honest peter bartzen â€” the man who does Â» things while other people talk about them â€” the trouble-maker the unspeakable the undesirable the disgraceful the impossible bartzen you want his scalp to hang on the pretty little ornamental railings at the most artistic building wherein it is your pleasure to meet â€” and you're go ng to get it â€” by fair means or foul right or wrong true or false good or bad â€” eter bartzen must go â€” and all that he represents of plain bluff everyday common-sense honesty and directness of purpose must go with him you have said it â€” you the Chicago woman's club and the other clubs that you are trying to get to join your fight splendid how can any one ever say that women should keep out of politics â€” after this latest exhibition of their broad-minded tolerance and their brilliant and inspired insight into the motives of men and parties after bartzen â€” why because it is the fad of the moment â€” the latest fashion in the smart set helpless children involved that's a fine reason for the choosing of a pet poodle ladies â€” it's a splendid motive for picking out a parisian muff of lace with a bouquet on it to keep your fingers warm â€” but is it really just the best reason in the world in a fight like this remember this isn't your fight â€” alone it isn't even the fight â€” alone â€” of the clever gentlemen who are behind you in this last maneuver if it were nothing but that â€” it would all be a sort of rueful joke â€” but there is nothing funny about a situation which concerns helpless children and unfortunate men and women why are you so bitter against peter bartzen ladies i'd like to know honestly i would is it because he honestly cares for the bick and the helpless â€” even if they arc poor and neglected and not always particularly clean baths cost money ladies you probably don't realize it but they do is it because peter bartzen doesn't stop to ask who a man is or where he came from when he's broke and down and out and needs help to stagger to his feet again is it because he puts people into the cook county institutions to look after the wards of the county who care something about the work they are paid to do and not so much about who sent them there to do it is it because he's building a new hospital and dared to go ahead with the plans for it without asking the members of the woman's club for their advice asks six plain reasons because he is stupid enough to go over to ihe juvenile detention home and give the children there a good time on the absurd principle that a boy is a boy even if he is dependent and delinquent with a dozen marks against him on the neat little account card mr witter the old probation officer used to keep so neatly no these are not your reasons what are your reasons then let's hear a few of them give us six that's a good easy number you ought to be able to dig up that many somewhere â€” just six plain sensible practical reasons for wanting to throw peter bartzen and his methods out rumors won't do â€” vague whispers will be counted out somebody's cousin hinted this and some one thought maybe that will not do it's facts we're after â€” a statement of facts that can be read and understood by people who never heard of browning in their lives and who haven't had time to join a class on george meredith and bernard shaw where are your facts ladies bring them out in plain print we the plain people are anxious to hear some of them no calling names isn't enough it may be very interesting to do that â€” very piquant and just a little bit â€” er â€” a â€” so exciting don't you know but it doesn't make a particle of impression upon the plain everyday people who know and respect plain everyday peter bartzen not a particle what is bartzen doing ? unreasonable folk â€” the plain people you can't get them to care a cent whether a man made the rounds at the golf links in the right number of drives or not â€” they won't even pretend to be interested if you try to tell them what clubs he does not belong to and how many times he forgets to say thank you in the approved english fash ion when the waiter hands him his plate all they know and all they want to know is what is that man peter bartzen doing for us and for our kind come now mrs bass you seem an intelligent sort of woman speak up so that we can all hear you what is peter bartzen doing to make you call a meeting asking all good citizens to vote for anybody on earth so long as they don't vote for bartzen no no that hospital story you're trying to spread won't do it really won't mrs bass it would be a rather interesting little tale if it were true â€” but the trouble is it is hopelessly false â€” and that hurts it a good deal honestly it does mrs bass â€” though you may not think it this isn't a paper on domestic life among the early babylonians that you're reading to the members of your club now mrs bass nor is it an essay on the ethics of the false â€” it's supposed to be an ap peal to the common sense and to the common humanity of the common people â€” and you really will have to have a fact or two at the bottom of it â€” just one or two â€” somewhere near to the bottom the cook county hospital which mr bartzen is rebuilding will accommodate 1,300 more patients when he is through with it than it has ever accommodated â€” i saw the architect and he showed me the authorized plans only yesterday have you ever seen those plans mrs bass have you mrs bowen when did you go out to the hospital last mrs van der vaart how much do you know yourselves about that hospital and the way it is run where under the shining sun did you ever get such a mass of mrs cleveland to marry professor white house bride who will wed again j widow of ex-president tells of her engagement to princeton savant imet her few months ago white house bride's wedding after quick courtship to take place in april i new york oct 29 mrs grover cleveland widow of the former president i of the united states is to be married next april to professor thomas preston an honorary professor at princeton university and now occupying the chair of archae ology at wells college aurora x y t the institution attended by mrs cleveland then frances folsoin although formal announcement has not been made and probably will not be made until after the debut of miss esther cleve land this winter the fact of the engage ment has been known for several days among the inthnat friends of mrs cleve land and professor preston the second romance or the woman who as the bride of the white house charmed a nation and whose high charac ter and devotion to her distinguished hus baud have been by example a national influence toward high ideals of wifehood is the outcome of an acquaintanceship of little more than a year's duration professor preston who is about fifty years of age a literary scholar and a lin guist of international distinction is a man of strong but retiring personality and although he has held a high place among the faculty of princeton for years it is said that his first meeting with mrs cleveland toot place not many months ago frequent visitor at home thereafter he became a frequent visitor at the cleveland home in princeton and undoubtedly mrs cleveland's ardent in terest in education fostered the first bond of sympathy that grew into stronger at tachment and has resulted in the most interesting announcement of a betrothal since the world heard that the beautiful frances folsom was to be married to the nation's chief in the stately halls of the white house late to-night mrs cleveland gave out the following statement mrs grover cleveland authorizes the announcement of her engagement to thomas jes preston professor of arehaeol i ogy and history of arts at wells college the dnte of the marriage is not yet de termined but will be announced later she declined to say anything further con cerning the matter before her marriage to mr cleveland miss fiances folsom was one of the most | charming personalities in buffalo society she was born in buffalo and her father oscar folsom was a law partner of mr cleveland when miss folsom returned from her schooling at wells college in ! aurora mr cleveland was campaigning for the presidential chair after he had won the engagement was announced and the marriage toÂ»k place in the white house it was the most notable social event in half a century four children living five children were born to mr and mrs cleveland four are now living they are ! esther marion richard folsom and fran . ces folsom since the death of mr cleveland on june 24 1908 his widow has lived a life of retirement except for active work on educational and philanthropic lines she has devoted most of her time to her chit ' dren the friends of mrs cleveland and the profesbor look unon the forthcoming mar ' riage as ideal deep sympathies mutual interests and kindred aims for beneficial work in the world forecast happiness for the union of the scholar and the woman who in lofty station as in the quiet of her home has exemplified the highest qnali ' ties professor preston occupies the chair of ' archaeol-jgy at wells in 1910 he received ' the degree of doctor of philosophy from princeton university he has traveled ' widely and speaks many languages no definite plans for the ceremony have been settled the coming out of her eldest daughter miss esther will occupy < the attention of her mother for the next 1 few weeks 1 mrs grover cleveland sherman kept under influence of drugs uraemic poisoning deveiops physicians fear death within 48 hours utica s t oct 29.-no improvement was noted to-night m the condition of vice president sherman who lies at the point of death here under the influence of quieting medicines he rested slumbering a great part of the time his vitality is slowly lessening however and he cannot much longer continue his losing fight against death despite the hopeful tone of the state ments that came to-day from the bedside lt was revealed to-night by dr fayette h peck his personal physician that mr i sherman's struggle for life is practically a hopeless one the phase of the vice president's illness that makes his condition critical ls the failure of the kidneys to perform tbeir functions uraemic poison ing has laid deadly hold on mr sherman dr peck considers it very doubtful that the kidneys will respond to remedial meas ures m which case death will probably ensue within forty-eight hours sleep produced by drug in order that the vice president may be spared suffering and that his already greatly weakened heart shall not be fur ther strained his doctors have resorted to hypodermic medication this induced sleep this afternoon and to-night the vice presi dent was still under its influence in discussing mr sherman's condition dr peck to-night made the following statement during last night mr sherman slept uninterruptedly from 11 o'clock until 5 a m it was a restful sleep and no opiates were necessary to produce it when he awoke he was perfectly rational and was greatly refreshed about 11 o'clock this forenoon there was a return of the distressing conditions due to the failure of the functions of his kidneys and his condition became des perate subsequently by means of hypo dermic medication he was quieted and he dropped into a sleep which has continued most of the afternoon and undoubtedly he will pass a peaceful night conditions bad to-day mr sherman's heart action ls fair but the complications from his kidneys iake his condition extremely critical because there is grave doubt if the kidneys will respond to remedial measures uraemia is now sapping the vitality of the vice president and i have great fear of the outcome his condition could hardly be more desperate but i do not apprehend his death to-night 5 to 1 odds on wilson new york oct 20.â€”odds on wilson lengthened to-day one ourb brokor of fered to bet 250 to 1,250 that wilson would not be elected this is 5 te 1 a great deal of money is being wagerod on Taft against boosevelt several beta of 1,000 were made at even money that Taft i would get a larger popular vote than roosevelt a bet of 1,000 even was made that Taft will beat roosevelt in new york state an offer to bet was made 1,000 to 100 that roosevelt dees net c^rry all the tÂ»t*Â»w*it-nf tha slississ nj killing baffles police dead girl had 50,000 s miss sophia g singer heiress \ < of baltimore md found slain m ( i rooming house at 3229 indiana / ;? avenue one year ago she had ) | 50,000 \ s body discovered by william \ is randolph worthen her fiance { l also of baltimore and said by po ) ? lice to be a leader of a gang of ) > wire tappers < i worthen told police he and the i s singer woman eloped to Chicago Â£ t from baltimore and were to have ? ) been married to-day > ) simultaneously with discovery s s of the murder charles a con \ s way and his wife an actress 5 l known as beatrice ryall mayme > |? coyne and grace coyne who i j had been occupying the same c a suite of rooms with worthen and ' ]\ the singer woman disappeared j '( worthen says that conway and s v his wife slew his sweetheart to s gain possession of 50 and several < jewels owned by the dead woman > the police are doubtful of j worthen's story and are holding s him pending investigation < search to be made for the bod \ ies of the conways on a possible ) triple murder theory i j triple killing now suspected in death mystery of heiress police hunt actress and hus band who they think may also have been slain ' fence's story doubted sobs in cell and denies the statements of witnesses he quarreled with girl jewels and money gone i prisoner is charged with being wire tapper says couple slew sweetheart i discovery of the body of miss j sophia g singer an heiress ! of baltimore mr her head : crushed and bruised by blows inflicted by a doorknob improvised ! into a billy in a rooming house at \ 3229 indiana avenue at an early hour ' yesterday morning coupled with the disappearance of a couple who had been occupying the same suite o â– rooms with the singer woman and . her fiance has furnished the police , with one of the most baffling crimes j i of the year the dead girl her body not yet colil was j ' found on the bed her nvi'.is mid leija ad f been tied in her mouth i wol iiuj been â– stuffed tightly over the gag a second towed soaked in chloroform tvas tied the murder was discovered shortly after midnight by william bandolph worthen twenty-six yenrs old the fiance of the dead woman who eloped with her from baltimore three weeks ago worthen said that he and the dead woman were to have been married to-day and had plauued to start immediately for baltimore got 50,000 legacy miss singer who is thirty years old re ceived 30,000 as her share of her fathers estate a year ago according to a dispatch from baltimore last night she is said to have deposited the money in a balti more bank it was stated that when she started for Chicago she took with her 1,000 and a large quantity of valuable jewelry worthen told the police miss singer had brought with her only a small amount of money and only a few jewels simultaneously with the discovery of the murder it was found that charles a con way a former well-known high diver and his wife a vaudeville singer known as beatrice ryall mayme coyne and grace coyne were missing from their room in the same suite with the room oc cupied by miss singer and wortheu who pose-d as man and wife with this latter discovery worthen at once attributed the murder to conway and his wife whom he said he and miss singer bad befriended for three weeks the motive he said was robbery worthen told the police that conway and his wife were without any money and that con way had seen him give miss singer s+s on sunday night the police failed to find any money or valuable jewels said to have been owned by imiss singer the police however are inclined to doubt worthen's story they now suopect possibly conway and his wife may also have been slain search will be made for their bodies if they are not found shortly sobs in his cell worthen was arrested by the police v'ao questioned him at length he appeared to be deeply affected by the death of hl3 fiancee and spent the greater part of his time in his cell at the stanton avenue police station sobbing oh my sophia why did they kill you he kept repeating over and over worthen who is of pleasing appearance and was immaculately attired in a light checked suit told a straightforward story of his movements on monday afternoon and evening and at no time contradicted â– himself i he repeated his story told the polica - earlier in the day at the coroner's inquest ' i in the afternoon and went into the i minutest detail concerning hla movements 1 especially on monday evening between 0:40 f o'clock when he said he left the rooming hocse and 11 o'clock when he returned j i several police officials said he told too do 1 j tailed a story and they believe they will|i i be nnablo to corroborate his gtory at se 1 i veral pointi 1 captain max n'ootbar of the thlrty-ufth q street station who has takon personal a charge of the investigation of the murder r , was inclined to lie skepticr.l of the entire i truth of worthen's story when ho learned v from another source that the young fel o low has been engaged in the wire tap ping bnitneis for several months i wortlwn it was told the dohm official d by a relative of mrs conway who saitl tbat mrs conway bad informed her lias been the leader of a baud of wire tappers who bave been operating in many cities tbrouffbout the country the members of the band secured ad vance information on horse racing at the various race tracks of the country and then rushed to poolrooms and placed bets on horses tbat they heard m advance had won the race in this way they are said to have made considerable money lost much of winnings worthen according to the information given captain nootbar was successful but he lost nearly all the money he made speculating on horses m other races than hose on which he had advance informa tion that worthen had interested miss slngef his fiancee m the wire tapping schema and that these two had tried to indues mr and mrs conwar to oln them m it also was told to captain xoothaar t_e police official's informant said tbat miss sin;er and mrs conway had accompanied worthen to one of the tallroad stations ia Chicago where worthen was wont to get his advance information and had assist ed him m telephoning the results of the various races to trie ids m several sections of the city this s.me informant further told captain xootbaar that mrs conway had told ber that miss singer feared worthen and that the latter had several times threatened to injure her charges threat of beating the conway woman according to this relative who salt tbat mr and mrs con way had visited her last sunday had told her tbat miss singer had written to her iv Chicago to t_-:el her at the railway sta tion upon the arrival of herself and worthen three weeks ago miss singer told mrs conway then according to the story of the latter's relative tbat sbe wanted her and her husband to live with her and worthen here so tbat worthed wcnld be unable to beat her as he bad threatened the sunday evening tbat the conwa.v visited i^eir relative they told her thai they had jnst left miss singer and worthen m a heated quarrel ami tbat iliey were tired of living with them and planned to move tells of quarrels evidence corroborating quarrels between miss singer and worthen was given at the coroner's inquest m the afternoon by mrs charles suchy w7 indiana avenue proprietor of a rooming house at which miss singer worthen and the conways formerly lived mrs suchy testified that she wns compelled to eject the four be cause of the profane language of miss singer and ber constant quarrels with worthen whom she said she believed to be man and wife worthen on the other band testified that he and miss singer never had a serious quarrel and that bn had asked miss singer several times to leave the conways and move into an apartment by themselves 110 said that he believed the conways were not the proper company for a woman of miss singer's refinement without being able to disprove worthen's detailed story of his movements on mon day night the police are inclined tÂ»--ui k continued on 2d page 6th column continued on 2d page sth column jflf.w?t the association of american a aver ujauj tisers has examined and certified to x__f the circulation of this publication the figures of circulation contained in the association's report only are guaranteed anohation of american advertisers o 2300 whitehall bldg v y city special notice examiner popularity contestants mr harold lockett is the winner of last week's special prize offer of a gold watch Chicago afid vicinity â€” fair i/t^v ts-umom colder wednesday thursday fair ooc jp^t moderate northwest and north i / [ t^i winds kt lm0 range of temperatures yesterday i c wffl lligbest 66 ' lowest 5 0vf8Â«/Â»d^f average 00 \ soof1 j

Chicago examiner vol x no 269 a m wednesday Chicago october 30 1912 wednesday mbtml in pricf onf cfnt delivered by c.rrlw u s patent office rrvn uiil (_.Â£ un i . 30 -â€ž, s p _. hontk war on special privileges in the tariff is wilson's aim will cut them out without hurting business and caus ing panic says governor in repeating his attitude declares those who have monopoly on credit will be responsible if depres sion follows his election irarw tork oct 29.-at three rousing rallies in essex county to-night governor wilson made strong pleas for the election of a democratic state legislature to ln snre the . election of william hughes as united states senator from xew jersey the governor told his andlences that without a democratic congress he as pres ident of the united states will be seriously handicapped in carrying out his proposed reforms reiterating his attitude on the tariff joveruor wilson in his newark speech am i read on very high authority if the i.riu i-rats were put into power there vet ill be i panic in the united states that i>usii:eh8 would be interrupted that every bing would tumble down and this great henr.tiful structure of our prosperity would po l.-s!r.nod and i understand that it is siiid thai governor wilson has not denned his position on the t:\rlff well for fear uher'e nv pers us present who cannot read the english language or who have just moved into the united states and never beard anything about this subject i am olng to define ny position en tho taric o thouphtful democrat in the united states hns so much as proposed free trade to cut out special privileges bot every democrat in the united states who knows anything knows that the schedules of the tariff almost from end to end conceal special privileges and private favors which we are going to ent out without touching or endangering one single wholesome fiber of honest ar rangement or ambitions is that definite enough do you not suppose that dem ocrats live in the united states do you suppose that democrats have come to the conclusion that they bad better pull the house down about their own ears are they so rich that they can now af ford to retire from business aee they going to commit economic suicide do they look like tyros and innocents and beginners now i find that i am invited to re turn to my ancient occupation i used to be a teacher of history and i find it necessary to teach it once more and i am positively abashed to find myself faced with the necessity of teaching it to the president of the united states i believe that whatever mr Taft puts his name to he puts it in perfect honesty and sin cerity but i am astounded to find that he has put his name to certain statements in entire ignorance of the circumstances of which he speaks he attributes the panic of 1s93 to the cleveland administration and intimates either personally or through his spokes men thfit it had something to do with the tariff bill which was passed the fol lowing year that is the most influential tariff bill i ever heard of that upsets business before it is enacted almost a yenr before it was enacted but what really upset business in the year 1s03 as every tyro knows who knows anything about the economic history of america was the absolutely fatal financial policy of currency legislation of the republican administration that had preceded defends giover cleveland afik any business man whose memory goes back to tliose days and will tell you that the risis the panic of isoy was coining uu with giant strides when mr cleveland was sworn into office chiefly ! because of the silver purchasing clause of the sherman act and that it was impossi ble to sustain either the currency or the credit of the country under the financial legislation of republican administrations a cr;isis that conies on throe months after ad administration takes offices and before y(he congress of that administration has i assembled is surely a very premature crisis uuless it has something to do with what has preceded it it is a matter of record that the crisis was the legitimate and inevitable result of policies for which the democratic party was in no degree re sponsible this is history and any fair man who knows tb-i circumstances will ad mit the truth of that statement but they say that if the next admin istration is democratic there will be an other panic well if there is it will have been brought on by the republicans and i i mb to say this that if there should ; be a panic knowing the circumstances of this country as i know them now it will win if red black dubs bartzen attack as clubwomen's fad writer defies society leaders to give real reasons why plain honest peter bartzen should not be re-elected to continue care of the needy by winifred black y o you're after bartzen are you â€” members of o the Chicago woman's club â€” plain old blunt ly honest peter bartzen â€” the man who does Â» things while other people talk about them â€” the trouble-maker the unspeakable the undesirable the disgraceful the impossible bartzen you want his scalp to hang on the pretty little ornamental railings at the most artistic building wherein it is your pleasure to meet â€” and you're go ng to get it â€” by fair means or foul right or wrong true or false good or bad â€” eter bartzen must go â€” and all that he represents of plain bluff everyday common-sense honesty and directness of purpose must go with him you have said it â€” you the Chicago woman's club and the other clubs that you are trying to get to join your fight splendid how can any one ever say that women should keep out of politics â€” after this latest exhibition of their broad-minded tolerance and their brilliant and inspired insight into the motives of men and parties after bartzen â€” why because it is the fad of the moment â€” the latest fashion in the smart set helpless children involved that's a fine reason for the choosing of a pet poodle ladies â€” it's a splendid motive for picking out a parisian muff of lace with a bouquet on it to keep your fingers warm â€” but is it really just the best reason in the world in a fight like this remember this isn't your fight â€” alone it isn't even the fight â€” alone â€” of the clever gentlemen who are behind you in this last maneuver if it were nothing but that â€” it would all be a sort of rueful joke â€” but there is nothing funny about a situation which concerns helpless children and unfortunate men and women why are you so bitter against peter bartzen ladies i'd like to know honestly i would is it because he honestly cares for the bick and the helpless â€” even if they arc poor and neglected and not always particularly clean baths cost money ladies you probably don't realize it but they do is it because peter bartzen doesn't stop to ask who a man is or where he came from when he's broke and down and out and needs help to stagger to his feet again is it because he puts people into the cook county institutions to look after the wards of the county who care something about the work they are paid to do and not so much about who sent them there to do it is it because he's building a new hospital and dared to go ahead with the plans for it without asking the members of the woman's club for their advice asks six plain reasons because he is stupid enough to go over to ihe juvenile detention home and give the children there a good time on the absurd principle that a boy is a boy even if he is dependent and delinquent with a dozen marks against him on the neat little account card mr witter the old probation officer used to keep so neatly no these are not your reasons what are your reasons then let's hear a few of them give us six that's a good easy number you ought to be able to dig up that many somewhere â€” just six plain sensible practical reasons for wanting to throw peter bartzen and his methods out rumors won't do â€” vague whispers will be counted out somebody's cousin hinted this and some one thought maybe that will not do it's facts we're after â€” a statement of facts that can be read and understood by people who never heard of browning in their lives and who haven't had time to join a class on george meredith and bernard shaw where are your facts ladies bring them out in plain print we the plain people are anxious to hear some of them no calling names isn't enough it may be very interesting to do that â€” very piquant and just a little bit â€” er â€” a â€” so exciting don't you know but it doesn't make a particle of impression upon the plain everyday people who know and respect plain everyday peter bartzen not a particle what is bartzen doing ? unreasonable folk â€” the plain people you can't get them to care a cent whether a man made the rounds at the golf links in the right number of drives or not â€” they won't even pretend to be interested if you try to tell them what clubs he does not belong to and how many times he forgets to say thank you in the approved english fash ion when the waiter hands him his plate all they know and all they want to know is what is that man peter bartzen doing for us and for our kind come now mrs bass you seem an intelligent sort of woman speak up so that we can all hear you what is peter bartzen doing to make you call a meeting asking all good citizens to vote for anybody on earth so long as they don't vote for bartzen no no that hospital story you're trying to spread won't do it really won't mrs bass it would be a rather interesting little tale if it were true â€” but the trouble is it is hopelessly false â€” and that hurts it a good deal honestly it does mrs bass â€” though you may not think it this isn't a paper on domestic life among the early babylonians that you're reading to the members of your club now mrs bass nor is it an essay on the ethics of the false â€” it's supposed to be an ap peal to the common sense and to the common humanity of the common people â€” and you really will have to have a fact or two at the bottom of it â€” just one or two â€” somewhere near to the bottom the cook county hospital which mr bartzen is rebuilding will accommodate 1,300 more patients when he is through with it than it has ever accommodated â€” i saw the architect and he showed me the authorized plans only yesterday have you ever seen those plans mrs bass have you mrs bowen when did you go out to the hospital last mrs van der vaart how much do you know yourselves about that hospital and the way it is run where under the shining sun did you ever get such a mass of mrs cleveland to marry professor white house bride who will wed again j widow of ex-president tells of her engagement to princeton savant imet her few months ago white house bride's wedding after quick courtship to take place in april i new york oct 29 mrs grover cleveland widow of the former president i of the united states is to be married next april to professor thomas preston an honorary professor at princeton university and now occupying the chair of archae ology at wells college aurora x y t the institution attended by mrs cleveland then frances folsoin although formal announcement has not been made and probably will not be made until after the debut of miss esther cleve land this winter the fact of the engage ment has been known for several days among the inthnat friends of mrs cleve land and professor preston the second romance or the woman who as the bride of the white house charmed a nation and whose high charac ter and devotion to her distinguished hus baud have been by example a national influence toward high ideals of wifehood is the outcome of an acquaintanceship of little more than a year's duration professor preston who is about fifty years of age a literary scholar and a lin guist of international distinction is a man of strong but retiring personality and although he has held a high place among the faculty of princeton for years it is said that his first meeting with mrs cleveland toot place not many months ago frequent visitor at home thereafter he became a frequent visitor at the cleveland home in princeton and undoubtedly mrs cleveland's ardent in terest in education fostered the first bond of sympathy that grew into stronger at tachment and has resulted in the most interesting announcement of a betrothal since the world heard that the beautiful frances folsom was to be married to the nation's chief in the stately halls of the white house late to-night mrs cleveland gave out the following statement mrs grover cleveland authorizes the announcement of her engagement to thomas jes preston professor of arehaeol i ogy and history of arts at wells college the dnte of the marriage is not yet de termined but will be announced later she declined to say anything further con cerning the matter before her marriage to mr cleveland miss fiances folsom was one of the most | charming personalities in buffalo society she was born in buffalo and her father oscar folsom was a law partner of mr cleveland when miss folsom returned from her schooling at wells college in ! aurora mr cleveland was campaigning for the presidential chair after he had won the engagement was announced and the marriage toÂ»k place in the white house it was the most notable social event in half a century four children living five children were born to mr and mrs cleveland four are now living they are ! esther marion richard folsom and fran . ces folsom since the death of mr cleveland on june 24 1908 his widow has lived a life of retirement except for active work on educational and philanthropic lines she has devoted most of her time to her chit ' dren the friends of mrs cleveland and the profesbor look unon the forthcoming mar ' riage as ideal deep sympathies mutual interests and kindred aims for beneficial work in the world forecast happiness for the union of the scholar and the woman who in lofty station as in the quiet of her home has exemplified the highest qnali ' ties professor preston occupies the chair of ' archaeol-jgy at wells in 1910 he received ' the degree of doctor of philosophy from princeton university he has traveled ' widely and speaks many languages no definite plans for the ceremony have been settled the coming out of her eldest daughter miss esther will occupy < the attention of her mother for the next 1 few weeks 1 mrs grover cleveland sherman kept under influence of drugs uraemic poisoning deveiops physicians fear death within 48 hours utica s t oct 29.-no improvement was noted to-night m the condition of vice president sherman who lies at the point of death here under the influence of quieting medicines he rested slumbering a great part of the time his vitality is slowly lessening however and he cannot much longer continue his losing fight against death despite the hopeful tone of the state ments that came to-day from the bedside lt was revealed to-night by dr fayette h peck his personal physician that mr i sherman's struggle for life is practically a hopeless one the phase of the vice president's illness that makes his condition critical ls the failure of the kidneys to perform tbeir functions uraemic poison ing has laid deadly hold on mr sherman dr peck considers it very doubtful that the kidneys will respond to remedial meas ures m which case death will probably ensue within forty-eight hours sleep produced by drug in order that the vice president may be spared suffering and that his already greatly weakened heart shall not be fur ther strained his doctors have resorted to hypodermic medication this induced sleep this afternoon and to-night the vice presi dent was still under its influence in discussing mr sherman's condition dr peck to-night made the following statement during last night mr sherman slept uninterruptedly from 11 o'clock until 5 a m it was a restful sleep and no opiates were necessary to produce it when he awoke he was perfectly rational and was greatly refreshed about 11 o'clock this forenoon there was a return of the distressing conditions due to the failure of the functions of his kidneys and his condition became des perate subsequently by means of hypo dermic medication he was quieted and he dropped into a sleep which has continued most of the afternoon and undoubtedly he will pass a peaceful night conditions bad to-day mr sherman's heart action ls fair but the complications from his kidneys iake his condition extremely critical because there is grave doubt if the kidneys will respond to remedial measures uraemia is now sapping the vitality of the vice president and i have great fear of the outcome his condition could hardly be more desperate but i do not apprehend his death to-night 5 to 1 odds on wilson new york oct 20.â€”odds on wilson lengthened to-day one ourb brokor of fered to bet 250 to 1,250 that wilson would not be elected this is 5 te 1 a great deal of money is being wagerod on Taft against boosevelt several beta of 1,000 were made at even money that Taft i would get a larger popular vote than roosevelt a bet of 1,000 even was made that Taft will beat roosevelt in new york state an offer to bet was made 1,000 to 100 that roosevelt dees net c^rry all the tÂ»t*Â»w*it-nf tha slississ nj killing baffles police dead girl had 50,000 s miss sophia g singer heiress \ < of baltimore md found slain m ( i rooming house at 3229 indiana / ;? avenue one year ago she had ) | 50,000 \ s body discovered by william \ is randolph worthen her fiance { l also of baltimore and said by po ) ? lice to be a leader of a gang of ) > wire tappers < i worthen told police he and the i s singer woman eloped to Chicago Â£ t from baltimore and were to have ? ) been married to-day > ) simultaneously with discovery s s of the murder charles a con \ s way and his wife an actress 5 l known as beatrice ryall mayme > |? coyne and grace coyne who i j had been occupying the same c a suite of rooms with worthen and ' ]\ the singer woman disappeared j '( worthen says that conway and s v his wife slew his sweetheart to s gain possession of 50 and several < jewels owned by the dead woman > the police are doubtful of j worthen's story and are holding s him pending investigation < search to be made for the bod \ ies of the conways on a possible ) triple murder theory i j triple killing now suspected in death mystery of heiress police hunt actress and hus band who they think may also have been slain ' fence's story doubted sobs in cell and denies the statements of witnesses he quarreled with girl jewels and money gone i prisoner is charged with being wire tapper says couple slew sweetheart i discovery of the body of miss j sophia g singer an heiress ! of baltimore mr her head : crushed and bruised by blows inflicted by a doorknob improvised ! into a billy in a rooming house at \ 3229 indiana avenue at an early hour ' yesterday morning coupled with the disappearance of a couple who had been occupying the same suite o â– rooms with the singer woman and . her fiance has furnished the police , with one of the most baffling crimes j i of the year the dead girl her body not yet colil was j ' found on the bed her nvi'.is mid leija ad f been tied in her mouth i wol iiuj been â– stuffed tightly over the gag a second towed soaked in chloroform tvas tied the murder was discovered shortly after midnight by william bandolph worthen twenty-six yenrs old the fiance of the dead woman who eloped with her from baltimore three weeks ago worthen said that he and the dead woman were to have been married to-day and had plauued to start immediately for baltimore got 50,000 legacy miss singer who is thirty years old re ceived 30,000 as her share of her fathers estate a year ago according to a dispatch from baltimore last night she is said to have deposited the money in a balti more bank it was stated that when she started for Chicago she took with her 1,000 and a large quantity of valuable jewelry worthen told the police miss singer had brought with her only a small amount of money and only a few jewels simultaneously with the discovery of the murder it was found that charles a con way a former well-known high diver and his wife a vaudeville singer known as beatrice ryall mayme coyne and grace coyne were missing from their room in the same suite with the room oc cupied by miss singer and wortheu who pose-d as man and wife with this latter discovery worthen at once attributed the murder to conway and his wife whom he said he and miss singer bad befriended for three weeks the motive he said was robbery worthen told the police that conway and his wife were without any money and that con way had seen him give miss singer s+s on sunday night the police failed to find any money or valuable jewels said to have been owned by imiss singer the police however are inclined to doubt worthen's story they now suopect possibly conway and his wife may also have been slain search will be made for their bodies if they are not found shortly sobs in his cell worthen was arrested by the police v'ao questioned him at length he appeared to be deeply affected by the death of hl3 fiancee and spent the greater part of his time in his cell at the stanton avenue police station sobbing oh my sophia why did they kill you he kept repeating over and over worthen who is of pleasing appearance and was immaculately attired in a light checked suit told a straightforward story of his movements on monday afternoon and evening and at no time contradicted â– himself i he repeated his story told the polica - earlier in the day at the coroner's inquest ' i in the afternoon and went into the i minutest detail concerning hla movements 1 especially on monday evening between 0:40 f o'clock when he said he left the rooming hocse and 11 o'clock when he returned j i several police officials said he told too do 1 j tailed a story and they believe they will|i i be nnablo to corroborate his gtory at se 1 i veral pointi 1 captain max n'ootbar of the thlrty-ufth q street station who has takon personal a charge of the investigation of the murder r , was inclined to lie skepticr.l of the entire i truth of worthen's story when ho learned v from another source that the young fel o low has been engaged in the wire tap ping bnitneis for several months i wortlwn it was told the dohm official d by a relative of mrs conway who saitl tbat mrs conway bad informed her lias been the leader of a baud of wire tappers who bave been operating in many cities tbrouffbout the country the members of the band secured ad vance information on horse racing at the various race tracks of the country and then rushed to poolrooms and placed bets on horses tbat they heard m advance had won the race in this way they are said to have made considerable money lost much of winnings worthen according to the information given captain nootbar was successful but he lost nearly all the money he made speculating on horses m other races than hose on which he had advance informa tion that worthen had interested miss slngef his fiancee m the wire tapping schema and that these two had tried to indues mr and mrs conwar to oln them m it also was told to captain xoothaar t_e police official's informant said tbat miss sin;er and mrs conway had accompanied worthen to one of the tallroad stations ia Chicago where worthen was wont to get his advance information and had assist ed him m telephoning the results of the various races to trie ids m several sections of the city this s.me informant further told captain xootbaar that mrs conway had told ber that miss singer feared worthen and that the latter had several times threatened to injure her charges threat of beating the conway woman according to this relative who salt tbat mr and mrs con way had visited her last sunday had told her tbat miss singer had written to her iv Chicago to t_-:el her at the railway sta tion upon the arrival of herself and worthen three weeks ago miss singer told mrs conway then according to the story of the latter's relative tbat sbe wanted her and her husband to live with her and worthen here so tbat worthed wcnld be unable to beat her as he bad threatened the sunday evening tbat the conwa.v visited i^eir relative they told her thai they had jnst left miss singer and worthen m a heated quarrel ami tbat iliey were tired of living with them and planned to move tells of quarrels evidence corroborating quarrels between miss singer and worthen was given at the coroner's inquest m the afternoon by mrs charles suchy w7 indiana avenue proprietor of a rooming house at which miss singer worthen and the conways formerly lived mrs suchy testified that she wns compelled to eject the four be cause of the profane language of miss singer and ber constant quarrels with worthen whom she said she believed to be man and wife worthen on the other band testified that he and miss singer never had a serious quarrel and that bn had asked miss singer several times to leave the conways and move into an apartment by themselves 110 said that he believed the conways were not the proper company for a woman of miss singer's refinement without being able to disprove worthen's detailed story of his movements on mon day night the police are inclined tÂ»--ui k continued on 2d page 6th column continued on 2d page sth column jflf.w?t the association of american a aver ujauj tisers has examined and certified to x__f the circulation of this publication the figures of circulation contained in the association's report only are guaranteed anohation of american advertisers o 2300 whitehall bldg v y city special notice examiner popularity contestants mr harold lockett is the winner of last week's special prize offer of a gold watch Chicago afid vicinity â€” fair i/t^v ts-umom colder wednesday thursday fair ooc jp^t moderate northwest and north i / [ t^i winds kt lm0 range of temperatures yesterday i c wffl lligbest 66 ' lowest 5 0vf8Â«/Â»d^f average 00 \ soof1 j